Abortion is one of the utmost common, uncomfortable and controversial topic. People throughout the world are pretty much forced to choose a side, but do not realize that there might be a difference between what we think about the law disposing abortion. With that being said, abortion can be portrayed as both morally wrong and permissible. Immanuel Kant and Jeremy Bentham both document this in their theories and beliefs. Kant does this with his deontological theory which describes how morality should be focused on duties and adhere to rules and imperatives, and Bentham opposes this with utilitarianism views, which focuses on the consequences of an action. Kant 's deontological theory and Bentham 's utilitarianism theory both encompass the controversial
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A fetus’ heartbeat, its ability to feel pain and its ability to survive outside of the womb are very important measures to take into account concerning fetal development and its stages because many ethical discussions arise from this. There are eight practices of abortion that are used today. These include: dilation and extraction (D&X) or intact D&X or partial birth abortion, hysterotomy, the morning-after pill, RU486 drug, uterine or vacuum aspiration, dilation & curettage (D&C), saline solution, and prostaglandin drugs. There has been around a million abortions enforced annually in the United States. Each year two out of every one hundred women had an abortion aged fifteen to forty four and half of these women had at least one previous abortion. Less than twenty percent of women attaining abortions are teenagers, while women in their twenties account for more than half of abortions (MacKinnon 11-2). Hispanic women are twice as likely to have an abortion procedure compared to white women and African American women are five times more likely to have the procedure done. This could be caused by cuts made to family funding including reduced contraceptives, especially with poorer women and families. “The cost of birth control is one reason poor women are more than three times as likely to end up pregnant unintentionally as middle-class …show more content…
Utilitarianism focuses on the consequences of an action. Endowing to the classical utilitarian moral theory, we classify human acts or practices as we consider neither the nature of the acts or practices nor the motive for which people do what they do. This can harvest to one’s action; that a life conceivably is saved, which matters morally. There is no total distinction between what is right and what is wrong based on Bentham’s view, only if the consequences are the highest favorable for the person’s greatest happiness, even including the majority of the people related to this person who is responsible to give that action. Drawing a conclusion about utilitarianism, it is our duty to decide which action or practice is best by considering the likely or actual consequences of each substitute. Since utilitarian people can decline the idea that secure acts are intrinsically good or evil, they are bare to experimentation and evidence, and they are exposed to populous ways of conceiving the goodness of consequences (MacKinnon 5-3). Each case or action stands on its own, according to act utilitarian reasoning. The consequences regulate whether it is good or bad. It is believed that the people making the decision to have an abortion must consider all consequences. The kinds of consequences to consider are positive or negative mental or psychological consequences, financial and social results and health risks and
A fetus’ heartbeat, its ability to feel pain and its ability to survive outside of the womb are very important measures to take into account concerning fetal development and its stages because many ethical discussions arise from this. There are eight practices of abortion that are used today. These include: dilation and extraction (D&X) or intact D&X or partial birth abortion, hysterotomy, the morning-after pill, RU486 drug, uterine or vacuum aspiration, dilation & curettage (D&C), saline solution, and prostaglandin drugs. There has been around a million abortions enforced annually in the United States. Each year two out of every one hundred women had an abortion aged fifteen to forty four and half of these women had at least one previous abortion. Less than twenty percent of women attaining abortions are teenagers, while women in their twenties account for more than half of abortions (MacKinnon 11-2). Hispanic women are twice as likely to have an abortion procedure compared to white women and African American women are five times more likely to have the procedure done. This could be caused by cuts made to family funding including reduced contraceptives, especially with poorer women and families. “The cost of birth control is one reason poor women are more than three times as likely to end up pregnant unintentionally as middle-class …show more content…
Utilitarianism focuses on the consequences of an action. Endowing to the classical utilitarian moral theory, we classify human acts or practices as we consider neither the nature of the acts or practices nor the motive for which people do what they do. This can harvest to one’s action; that a life conceivably is saved, which matters morally. There is no total distinction between what is right and what is wrong based on Bentham’s view, only if the consequences are the highest favorable for the person’s greatest happiness, even including the majority of the people related to this person who is responsible to give that action. Drawing a conclusion about utilitarianism, it is our duty to decide which action or practice is best by considering the likely or actual consequences of each substitute. Since utilitarian people can decline the idea that secure acts are intrinsically good or evil, they are bare to experimentation and evidence, and they are exposed to populous ways of conceiving the goodness of consequences (MacKinnon 5-3). Each case or action stands on its own, according to act utilitarian reasoning. The consequences regulate whether it is good or bad. It is believed that the people making the decision to have an abortion must consider all consequences. The kinds of consequences to consider are positive or negative mental or psychological consequences, financial and social results and health risks and